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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Food and Medicines Administration (FDA) announced this Saturday that they are investigating a salmonella outbreak in several states linked to brown eggs of free grazing and organic chickens.
In the case, a market withdrawal of about 1.7 million eggs was launched, sold by the August Egg Company company between February 3 and May 15 in stores in nine states: California, Nevada, Washington, Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Illinois, Indiana and Wyoming.
The withdrawal of the eggs was announced on Friday; The affected egg marks can be consulted here and were available in stores such as Walmart and Safeway.
So far the outbreak of these eggs has resulted in 79 sick people, from which 21 have been hospitalized, although no death is reported, according to CDC.
(Salmonella outbreaks for cucumbers have returned)
“This outbreak may not be limited to the states where there is already a case report and that the number of sick people is greater than that reported so far,” the CDC said in a statement. “This is because many people recover without needing medical care and no salmonella detection tests are tested.”
SALMONELA is a type of bacteria that can make patient food or drinks, or if people play infected animals, the excrements of these or the areas in which they sleep, according to CDC. It is one of the main causes of illness, hospitalization or death due to causes of food origin in the world; In the United States there are about 1.35 million infections related to the year.
Symptoms include diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps, which can start from six hours to six days after having consumed food with the bacteria. Minors, elderly or with weakened immune systems may have serious diseases due to salmonella.
The CDCs are recommending that anyone who has any of the egg brands planned for the retirement put them in the garbage or returns them to the retail stores where they bought them. The businesses that have the eggs of the affected company should not sell them or serve them, and the CDC asks them to disinfect any surface in which the eggs in question have been.
For its part, the August Egg Company said that it has taken several of the eggs identified as a possible focus of infection to a specialized installation where they are pasteurized and any pathogen can be killed.
“The food security team is also carrying out a thorough review to identify what measures to start so that this situation is not repeated,” the company said in a statement. “We are committed to adding this issue to implement all corrective actions to prevent something from new from happening.”
This is not the only active salmonlal outbreak in the United States at the moment.
Since May, the FDA announced cases related to cucumbers of the Bedner Growers farms and distributed by fresh start produces salts; In that outbreak, 45 sick people and 16 hospitalized in 18 different states are reported so far.
